Regio-Plants
Establishment of a research network for the use of health-promoting plant-based raw materials from the Bavaria-Tyrol-Upper Austria region: from identification to efficient use.
Goals
Naturally occurring plant compounds can have positive effects on diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, but also on the health and performance of livestock. Regio-Plants is building an interdisciplinary and transnational research network in which the partners are searching for new active ingredients from native plants. In addition, they are expanding their knowledge of local health-promoting plants such as pome fruit (especially apples), also with regard to the selection of varieties, cultivation methods and storage conditions. The target groups of the activities are companies (primary producers and processing companies) and consumers as well as the scientific community.
Activities
- Expansion and screening of a regional extract library
- Investigation of cultivation measures and storage of pome fruit with a focus on valuable ingredients
- Development of test systems for the allergenic potential of crops
- Investigation of the ingredients of apples depending on variety, cultivation and storage
- Characterization and cultivation of regional plants with blood sugar-lowering effect
- Characterization of regional plants for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases
- Passing on the information obtained to the public and companies (e.g. fruit growers, producer associations)
Results
- Practical, scientific network for the use of regional plant-based raw materials for human health
- Expertise in quantifying the allergenic potential of crops
- Increased knowledge about the use of apples and other regional plants among the project partners as well as primary producers and processing companies
Key data
Funding line: Interreg Bavaria-Austria
Duration: 01.03.2023 to 28.02.2027
Budget: EUR 1,473,138.40
Lead partner: FH Upper Austria (project management: Clemens Röhrl)
Project partner:
- Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (Dominikus Kittemann) - https://www.hswt.de/
- Austrian Competence Center for Feed and Food Quality Safety and Innovation (FFoQSI - Julian Weghuber) - http://www.ffoqsi.at/
- Technical University of Munich (Corinna Dawid) - http://www.molekulare-sensorik.de/index.php?id=2
- Austrian Drug Screening Institute GmbH (ADSI - Thomas Jackschitz) - https://www.adsi.ac.at/
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